Justice Long Delayed
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06-18-2023, 08:55 AM
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RE: Justice Long Delayed
I suddenly woke up this morning before 5 AM and realized something important.
There is now a national holiday to honor the day two years after the Civil War that black slaves in Texas were informed that they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The slaves of the South could have been informed of their freedom long before but Frederick Douglass refused a military commission as a Major to inform slaves in the South that they had been granted their freedom. Douglass was perfectly willing to let his own sons risk life and limb as members of the Massachusetts 54th (as I recall) but he was not willing to risk his own life to inform the slaves of the South of their freedom. Should not those black warriors who served and fought for the Union and the freedom of all slaves be especially honored today? And, as for reparations, should not 90 percent come from the progeny of those who initially enslaved Africans for perpetuity and accepted in return financial rewards and "modern" military weapons in order to enslave even more African tribes for perpetuity? "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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Justice Long Delayed - David Lockmiller - 06-17-2023, 12:25 PM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - David Lockmiller - 06-18-2023, 01:09 AM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - David Lockmiller - 06-18-2023 08:55 AM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - David Lockmiller - 06-20-2023, 04:47 PM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - Steve - 06-20-2023, 10:46 PM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - David Lockmiller - 06-21-2023, 05:06 PM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - Gene C - 06-21-2023, 07:46 AM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - David Lockmiller - 06-22-2023, 12:01 PM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - Steve - 06-24-2023, 01:10 AM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - David Lockmiller - 06-24-2023, 01:35 PM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - Steve - 06-25-2023, 05:41 AM
RE: Justice Long Delayed - David Lockmiller - 06-25-2023, 09:59 AM
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